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[Fixed] Error Using Veeam Agent for Windows Free with a NAS

I have previously blogged about how to back-up home systems to commercial standards. A useful tool for the home user is Veeam Agent for Windows Free. It allows you to make a recovery disk and system image and has a very reliable restore feature.

In the small office/home (SoHo) environment the back-up target will typically be a Unix NAS with RAID1. To avoid authentication issues and errors like,

In summary, you can guard against cryptolocker attacks by using a different protocol for backup. For example, I use my NAS with SMB for File History and user shares and with FTP for weekly backup. In this was if the machine is compromised and the virus has access to the SMB backups (user shares and file history) it will not have access to the FTP backups because different credentials are used.

My most recent advice is that the primary data backup target should be Microsoft OneDrive because this has built-in ransomware protection. Microsoft Office 365 Home gives you 6 users each with 1TB of storage for ~ $100 a year. You then get Office 365 “free”. The NAS should be the second line of defense.